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We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.
What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.
Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.
I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.
Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.
In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.
When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that's when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.
It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.
Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.
The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.
Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.
The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.
COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
In the early days, I didn't have the money to pay decent salaries, so I didn't get good people. I got nice people, but I didn't get good employees.
Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.
Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money. [Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]
I think earning money is the simplest thing in the world once you learn how to do it. It's like driving a car. It's simple if you know how to do it.
For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value.
I think all of the great developers start not with the intent to make money, but with the intent to make something fun that's in their passion zone.
In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.
Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!
That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are.
We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.
Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.